Awning.



E. F. OPIE. AWNING. APPLICATION FILED MAY 25, 1910.

Patented Aug. 23, 1910.

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AWNING. y APPLICATION FILED MAY 25, 1910.

Patented Aug. 23, 1910.

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DWIN F. OPIE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANI.

AWNING.

T o all whom it 'ma-y concern.: l

Be it known that I, EDWIN F. Oria, a citizen of theUnited States,residing at Philadelphia, in the county of vPhiladelphia and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inAwnings, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in awnings, and more particularlyto an improved attachment 'for awnings, the object of the inventionbeing to provide an improved device which will serve to lift'tlie awningwhen permitted, and which requires a pull on the awning to draw it downwhere it may be locked in its lowered position.

A further object is to provide a device of this character which may beattached toA any ordinary form of awning such as is usually.

employed on ordinary doors and windows, and which will overcome thenecessity for laborious work required in raising awnings,

and which will raise the awning quickly and hold it securely.

With these and other objects in View, the.'

invention consists in certain' novel features of construction andcombinations and arrangements of parts as will be more fully hereinafterdescribed and pointed out in the claims.

ln the accompanying drawings: Figure 1, is a perspective view.illustrating my improveniente, Fig. 2, is an' enlarged view in sideelevation of. one of the attachments.

Fig. 3, is 'a 'view in longitudinal section' thereof. Fig. 4, is a planView, and Fig.v 5,'

is a view in transverse section.

1, represents the rod frame, and `2, 2, my

improved attachments to which the awning ends of the rod frame .1 areconnected, as will more fully hereinafter appear. These attachments 2are secured to the window frame, support the ends of the rod traine 1,and serve to pivot the frame l and move it to a vertical position whenpermitted. The

vawning 3 is illustrated in dotted lines, and is secured at its upperend to the window frame, and at its lower open end is secured to the rod-iame 1, and the arms of which latter are secured in the pivoted arms 4of my improvedattachments, which will now be described and as l employtwo of these attachments and they are both alike, the

description of one will applyalike to both.

5, represents a casing which is preferably a casting having a base plate6, .and this Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed May 25,1910. lSerial No. 563,344.

Patent-.ea Aug. 2a, i910.

base plate and the webs of the casting are provided with openings 7 forthe .reception of screws 8-"to secure the device in place. Theseopenings 7 areprovided so that the screws may. be driven into the framefrom either direction, so that the attachment may be secured inthe mostconvenient manner.

A tube 9 is mounted to slide in casing 1, and a coiled spring 10'islocated in this tube, bears at its inner end against the base .6, andat. its outer end against a screw threaded plug 11 screwed into theouter end of the tube 9, so that the tension ot' the spring may bereadily adjusted, or the spring removed and replaced. The tube 9 on-one'side is provided with la seriesA of lteeth forming a rack 12, whichengage the with the arm 4 above mentioned. This segnient 13 and the/armare preferably hollow, so as to accommodate the arm of frame 1. Thearm14 is pivoted on a journal' bolt 14, extending through registeringopenings in Athe casting, and segment 13. nal bolt 14 is also adapted tobe projected through the opening 15 in the end of the frame arm and saidjournalbolt is prefer'- ably secured by a cottei pin 16. The arm offrame lis further contined in the hollow arm 4 by means of cross pins 17above and below the sameand secured in registering openings in the arm 4by means of Cotter pins .18. To hold the arm 4 in its horizontalfposition with the spring- 10, comand is adapted to engage in a notch 21'in castingj, and this 'catch is preferably provided' withv an arm f9.2of some length to facilitate 'its manipulation.

The operation is as follows: lWhen the awning is down as illestrated inFig. 1, the spring "10 is 'under tension and the catch 2O holds thearm'4 and the awning frame from being 'moved upward by the spring. Whenit is desired to raise the awning, the opei'- ator moves the catches 2Oout of the notches `21, when-the'springs 1() will forcetlie tubeengagement between said tubes and ythe arms 4, the inner frame with itsawning will be ism, (not shown) would of course be provided or pullingthe awning down into lowered position, but it may be found in a goodmany instances that no additional lmeans is necessary, as the awning canprol vteeth of a segmental pinion 13, integralv This jour-I -'pressed, acatch 2() is pivoted on the arm 4v 9 outward, and due to the rack andpinion swung up out of the way. Some median-- ioo ably be drawn down bysimply pressing against the frame 1.

-Varions slight changes might be made in the general form andarrangement of parts described Without departing fromv my invention, andhence I do not limit myself to the precise Adetails set forth, butconsider myself at liberty to makesuch changes and alterations 'asfairly fall Within the spirit and. scope of the-appended claims.

' Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters ,Patent is: f

l. A device of the character described, comprisinga casting, anarm-pivoted to the casting, a longitudinally movable rack, a pinion onthe arm engaging the rack, and

' a spring pressing against'said rack, substantially as described.

2. A device of the character described,

comprising a casting, an arm pivotally connected to the casting, asegmental pinion on said arm, a tube mounted to 'move longi# tudinallyin the casting, a rack on tlietube engaging the pinion, and a coiledspring 'Within the tube tending to move the same longitudinally,substantially as described.`

34. A device of the character described, comprising a casting, an armpivot-ally'connected to the casting, a segmental pinion on said arm,a,tube mounted to move vlongitudinally in the casting, a rack on thetube engaging thev pinion, said tube having i11- ternal screw threads initsV outer end, and a screw-threaded plug screwed into said tubel andengaging the spring, substantially as described.

4. A device of the character described, comprising a casting, an armpivotally connected t-o the casting, a segmental pinion on said arm, atube mounted to move longitudinally in the casting, a rack on the tubeengaging thepinion, said' tube having internal screw i threads in itsouter end,.aA

` EDWIN F. OPIE. Witnesses:

EDWIN F. Oris, Jr., lC. E. Po'r'rs.

